The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-02
ITEMS In THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

of Counterfeit Money-Cne of the
Delegates to the Baptist Convention
at Albany Nervous About Burglars
A Negro Found Drowned at Albany.
GEORGIA
Wheat is looking well in Forsyth county
It is said that there is man in Sumter
county over SO yea s old who has never re-
ceived letter of any kind.
There are probably six or eight persons in
Forsyth county who are entitled to pen
Slons under the late Mexican pension bill.
Erwin Maxwell. late proprietor of the
Palace Hotel at Cincinnati, is to become
proprietor of the Markham House at At
lanta.
When the railroad is completed Baisden's
Bluff will be the great watering place of
Darienites 1t is attracting attention al
ready.
The aldermanic election acid at Americas
Friday to fill the unexpired term of DR.. W.
T. Burt, resigned. resulted in the choice of
j. L. Mack.
1t is forty-one miles through Worth
county from north to south boundary, and
1T will require $50, 900 worth of stock to Sc
cure the Atlanta and Hawkinsville railroad.
There is a gentleman in Rome making
arrangements with the land company TO
plant shops and works for the manufacture
OF bridges and other machinery in that line
The Governors Horse Guard of Atlanta
VIII go into encampment at Salt Springs for
one week next July, and during that time
will live the life of a soldier barring the
battle.
The belled buzzard has made his appear
ance in Carrollton 1t passed over the resi-
dence of Wiley Stewart Tuesday A negro
girl was the first to see it and became very
much excited.
There was some hail at CarroIlton Friday.
but not enough to do any serious damage.
hood rains have fallen in several parts of the
ounty, which have produced quite "come
nut" In cotton, corn, oats and vegetables.
Nero West, a colored preacher of Darien.
was recently committed for larceny from
the house. West has already served term
IN the penitentiary, and he now has son in
that institution. However, he may be inno-
cent of the charge
A white man was hung in Mcintosh
county many years ago after he had been
reprleved by the Governor. The reprieve
had to come by courier from Milledgeville,
and 1T arrived in Darien few minutes after
the hanging was over.
Tuesday morning when T. ]. Studstill. of
-Alapaha, went into his livery stable he
found the right hind leg of fine iron gray
horse, bought last Saturday, broken about
seven inches above the fetlock. There was
not the slightest abrasion of the skin, nor
was the hair disturbed in the least. 1t is one
of the unsolvable mysteries.
Carrollton Times: Capt d. w, Croft in
formed us that the bridge at the river is
now completed and that cars ran through
Wednesday morning. The extra train will
run for few days until the block of freight
at Griffin is cleared. 1t arrives here at noon
as formerly. Capt. Croft says good JOB
has been done on the bridge.
Tonight the people of Atlanta will as
senble IN DeGive's opera house to denounce
the proposed coercion of Ireland by the
Tory government of England. Gov. Cor
don will preside. The Georgia Senators
( will speak. Dr. Hawthorne and Dr. Morri-
son viii also address the meeting, as well as
Il Hon. N. j. Hammond, Judge Van Epps,
n Hoke Smith, Hon. A. II. Cox and Mayor
8 Cooper.
The body of George Hamilton, a negro
5 boy about II years old, of Albany, who had
Il been missing from his home since last Tues
day morning, was discovered by Joe Ward
Saturday morning, in a lime sink on the
~. w Waters place The boy frequently
had epileptic fits, and it is thought, had
gone to the lime sink to fish, when fit came
ON and he fell into the water and was
drowned.
At Atlanta Drs. Joseph Jacobs, Walter
Taylor and David Curry have dissolved. DR..
1dCObS bfl6 Dub1neSS, ana mas MS
father and two brothers with him DR.
Taylor viii go into the manufacture of
sweet gum and mullen and Taylor's cologne,
while Dr. Curry has returned to Carriers
vile. DR.. Jacobs, on the winding-up of the
business, drew out $50, 600 which he has
made since his removal to Atlanta.
The directors of the Columbus and Gulf
Navigation Company held a meeting Fri
day. 1t was decided to build two large
freight boats to ply between Columbus and
Apalachicola. Capt. c. A. Klink and
George Lapham were authorized to go to
Jeffersonville, Ind, and have one of them
built at once. This line will prove a great
thing for Columbus, as it will connect with
steamships from Boston, and will give this
city the benefit of competitive water rates
under the interstate law
News has reached Cumming that DIR. Har-
aeman was severely bitten by a mad dog
last Tuesday morning He was obliged to
beat the rabid animal loose with pistol from
Its hold on his hip, after shooting it three
times. DR.. Hardeman lives near Oscar
vile, in Forsyth county. Immediately after
he was bitten his father went to Atlanta for
a maidstone, but the doctor, in a frenzy of
despair, had so burned and scared the wound
that the stone would not stick He is in a
very precarious situation, and is half crazed
by fear of the result.
Last Wednesday a nicely dressed lady APP
peared at the residence of Mr. Sorrels, in
Acworth, and informed that gentleman
that she desired to purchase land He
showed her some farms which he owned,
two of which he soon bargained to her for
$4,000. Friday morning she left as
mysteriously as she came 1t is said she ex-
hibited a through ticket to St. Louis and
quite roll of money, and she wore fine
gold watch and chain. Still she left on foot
and was seen several miles north of Ac-
worth, going in the direction of Chatta
nooga. Her conduct, to say the least of it,
Is mysterious.
Col. T. NJ. Swift, of Elberton, success
full merchant and planter, was in Athens the
other day with new patent which he is
developing and selling through the State
This consists of a combined handpower and
treadle attachment to sewing machine
1t works upon movable fulcrin and can
be attached to any sewing machine, by
means of which the ruinous method of work
ing the treadle, so injurious to women. can
be averted. The machine is thus easily
worked by hand power, and the attachment
is warmly recommended by ladies who have
tried it, and by physicians who have OBJ
served its motion. Col. Swift will soon
build mandatory. in Elberton for the
purpose Of making these attachments at the
rate of 900 day.
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